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New Viennese appointment for Borracce di poesia. The project returns to the Austrian capital after the experience there last June when they exhibited for the first time outside of Italy thanks to winning the Cycling Visionaries Awards organized by Velo-City 2013: an event of meetings, planning, exchange of ideas between experts and enthusiasts of urban cycling, intermodality and new mobility.

Borracce di poesia is therefore in Vienna from the 13th to the 18th of September to participate in “Radkult”, a thematic festival that promotes the culture of the bicycle, particularly in urban areas, through workshops, games, films, cycle rides, installations and exhibitions.

During the festival Borracce di poesia will hold readings during which they will distribute, amongst other things, one-hundred water-bottles each containing a “roll” with a rhyme dedicated to bicycles, chosen from those of the English versions. The translation of the quatrains into English, edited by Laura Pakes, began due to Velo-City.

Here you have the first poem in english! A way to reach more people and let them enjoy the project “Borracce di Poesia – Water bottles of poetry”. It was born in 2007 combining two passions: urban cycling and rhymes. The poems are spontaneous reflections by the project-creator who narrates the world from a saddle emphasizing the cyclist’s point of view. A way to recall the historical tradition and its poetical approach to cycling linking it to the modern role of bicycles in urban mobility.

So, this is my point of view when they ask me: “Why do you ride a bicycle?”

The need is not to demonstrate anything
Nor be anti-conformist; what that may bring.
It’s the sense of the freedom and liberty
Enjoyed with contemporary mobility.